[LLVMdev] Better IDEs/code editors because of LLVM?

[Gordon Henriksen]

Hi Thomas,

On 2008-02-10, at 03:58, Thomas Hühn wrote:

> I am not sure whether I understand the goals and proposed features  
> of your
> project, so I'd like to ask.
>
> I'll just pick out one little aspect:
>
> I think you are developing a compiler that provides "cleaner" and  
> easier
> access to its internals (AST, semantic annotations etc.).

This is not a goal of LLVM, which provides compilers with code  
generation services: an intermediate representation, low-level program  
analysis, optimizing transformations, native code generation, just-in- 
time compiler, and such.

However, is a goal of the clang project, which is a C and Objective-C  
(and eventually C++) compiler built using LLVM as a back-end.

Hope that helps,
Gordon